Mon 31 Jul 2006
Now the main conference website at http://ati.stanford.edu/conference/ is up to date. But you need to use proxy to access it or visit the local mirror here. The local version will still be the most up to date version.
You don’t bother to check the website, do you? Here is the feeds for latest news of the conference.
Sun 30 Jul 2006
We as the organizer of the conference, particularly like bloggers. So here’s a chance for bloggers to get into the conference without registration fee.
All you have to do is to write a blog post about us, with a link to the conference homepage. Be sure to include a strong reason why you should be invited to the conference for free. So what kind of reason can be strong? You give the answer. Posts that interesting enough is also a strong reason.
We don’t promise how many free tickets available for bloggers, as we don’t know how many bloggers would like to participate. If you are invited, I will leave comment on your blog. You don’t have to inform us, we will find your post ourselves. If you do think that we probably missed your post, leave comment here, we will check.
Sun 30 Jul 2006
This friday afternoon, I went to see the conference venue. The facilities are quite new. The room can hold 290+ attendees. Here’s some pictures of the conference room.
The only thing that I am not satisfied is that there’s no network connection in the conference room. Well, they do provide two CDMA card for us to use. But you just take it as No Network.
I have updated the detailed address to the conference information page. It’s 333 Cailun Road (蔡伦路333号), Pudong Scientific Convention Building (浦东科学会堂二楼大报告厅). We will have about 3 buses waiting at Zhangjiang High-tech Park Subway Station (Line No. 2) on the conference day to pick you up to the venue. The buses will be decorated so that you can easily recognize them.
The lunch is provided at a restaurant 5 mins walk to the conference room.
Sun 30 Jul 2006
Our registration form is hosted on Wufoo. I believe it works, because some early birds have already get in. But if you really cannot open our registration form. How about try this one at Wufoo. They are the same form.
Sun 30 Jul 2006
The payment options are available now. I have updated the conference information page.
Is it reasonable? Compared to our last year ticket price, you draw the conclusion. I don’t think you need the VIP seat. But if you do care about that, we have this option for you. And I recommend you to choose the online payment option, because I can expect a long queue waiting at the conference gate, if too many people pay at the door.
We started to provide free invitation to college students last year. This year we do this again. If you are student, go through our online registration form. We will inform you five days before the conference. If you are not based in Shanghai, you have to cover your transportation expense yourself.
So what are you waiting? Go register, the seats are limited.
Wed 26 Jul 2006
When we contact speakers, there’s a common question for the ones not based in Shanghai: Do you have a budget to cover my transportation and hotel expense?
The short answer is sorry. The long answer is our confernece is a non-commercial event. All the conference organization committee are student volunteers. We have sponsors, but that’s all for conference expense like venue, coffee break, and lunch. We haven’t decided the ticket price. If it’s not free, most likely though, that’s all for parts that cannot be covered by our budget.
So what we can provide speakers for return:
If anyone is interested to be sponsor on stuffs like T-shirt, brochure, public media, etc, drop me a note at lychen1109@gmail.com.